Dr Surindar Kishen Dhesi PhD, FCIEH CEnvH, SFHEA

Dr Surindar Kishen Dhesi

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health and Risk Management

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7751
Email
s.k.dhesi@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@surin75
View my research portal
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Surindar Dhesi is an environmental health lecturer and active chartered practitioner involved in several multi-disciplinary and multi-method projects on the conditions experienced by migrants, refugees and internally displaced people in France, Indonesia, Gaza, Rwanda and Nigeria. 

The overarching aim of her work is to help protect the most vulnerable members of society by understanding, documenting, and seeking solutions to environmental health inequalities.

Qualifications

  • PhD  ‘Exploring how Health and Wellbeing Boards are tackling health inequalities, with a focus on Environmental Health’- University of Manchester
  • MSc Public Health- Oxford Brooked University
  • NEBOSH Diploma
  • BSc Environmental Health- Kings College, University of London

Teaching

Dr Dhesi is Director of the IOSH-accredited MSc Health, Safety and Environment Management. 

She also leads modules on the CIEH-accredited MSc in Environmental Health and

MSc in Public and Environmental Health Science

Other activities

  • Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
  • A founder member of the UK Environmental Health Research Network (EHRNet)
  • Graduate member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
  • Listed on the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR)